Posts Tagged ‘command and control’

Ghost story

Outdated attitudes, behaviors scary. By Carol Kinsey Goman. I believe in ghosts. Not only do I believe in ghosts, I’ve seen how they haunt individuals, teams, departments, and entire organizations around the world. And nowhere are these workplace ghosts more insidious than in the area of collaboration. What...
December 8th, 2009 | 01 (7) 2009 / html, FREE articles, Learning | Read More

Decentralizing stewardship

Minister’s decision a lesson in the power of empowerment. By Jerry Ash. There is no better way to understand how the rules can change, how people can become engaged in making better decisions, and how surprise and discovery can ignite communities than to follow the collection plate of a community church...
July 13th, 2009 | 01 (3) 2009 / html, Choosing, Cover stories, FREE articles | Read More

SmartInnovators

You know the game has changed. How do you fit? By Debra M. Amidon. After 20 years of deep research and on-the-ground leadership, Smart People Magazine has asked me to explain our work in plain language. And I have to do it in two pages (give me three, please!). The focus of our research has been on helping...
July 13th, 2009 | 01 (3) 2009 / html, Creating, FREE articles | Read More

Wide variation in educational quality in U.S.

The U.S. approach to education is a command-and-control style, using standardized tests that become the object of the educational process. This study provides more evidence that it isn’t working. Most American first-grade classrooms are pretty happy places to be. Children smile and enjoy working with...
May 14th, 2009 | 01 (2) 2009 / html, FREE articles, Learning | Read More

Unmanaging knowledge

How to tell the boss to back off. You’ve got a pretty good boss, yet he or she still heeds the traditional creed of command and control. But it doesn’t work for you. You’re engaged in knowledge work and you’d like to tell the boss to back off. What do you do? Explain it to the boss first chance...
May 13th, 2009 | 01 (2) 2009 / html, FREE articles, Working | Read More

Game-changing decisions to junior non-coms

Listen up corporate management. From the organization that inspired the management principle of command and control comes a change in management style that transfers decision-making to the front lines. During the Association of the United States Army’s Institute of Land Warfare Winter Symposium and...
April 12th, 2009 | 01 (1) 2009 / html, FREE articles, Working | Read More

When the digital gens meet the KMers

By Jerry Ash Smart People magazine. For 175 years we have been taught that people are hired not for what they know, but for what they can do. They’ve been trained, handed job descriptions and told their futures depended on performing to the standards. Without regard for what people have already learned,...
April 12th, 2009 | 01 (1) 2009 / html, FREE articles, K-Factor | Read More